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MONTGOMERY Canal’s special people and places are celebrated in a new 20-minute film Life on the Monty, which has been released on the Canal &

AN OLD abandoned wooden cruiser style boat that had been sunk for a few months is lifted out of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal near

THE Minister for Culture, Tourism and Sport, Lord Elis-Thomas, has visited the Montgomery Canal in Welshpool to learn how Wales’ former industrial waterways can play

SUMMERLEE Heritage Museum has come to the aid of the stricken paddle steamer, Maid of the Loch, whose owners, the Loch Lomond Steamship Company Limited,

THE Canal & River Trust has announced that part of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal will be available for use by boaters one day a

MID and West Wales AM Neil Hamilton has described plans to restore the Montgomery Canal as ‘visionary’ and has pledged his support to get the

RESTORATION of the Burslem Branch Canal in Stoke has taken a giant leap forwards with the construction of a new branch canal footpath and publication

RIVER Canal Rescue has this month formally launched Bilgeaway – a product it describes as ‘the world’s first truly environmentally friendly bilge discharge filter’. Bilgeaway

THE Canal & River Trust will carry out more than £612,000 worth of repairs to the Shropshire Union Canal this winter. Work has started on

PENNYWORT thrives in the summer but the Environment Agency is urging rivers users not be complacent about reporting new outbreaks of this invasive and destructive

A NEW report by Sustrans sets out recommendations for an overhaul of the National Cycle Network to open up walking and cycling to more people,